Stephens Vincent L. Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music 9780252084638

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Автор: Stephens Vincent L.
Название: Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music
ISBN: 9780252084638
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Музыка

Музыкальные обзоры и критика

Рок и поп-музыка

Композиторы и музыканты, музыкальные группы

Культурология

ISBN-10: 0252084632
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 14.10.2019
Серия: New perspectives on gender in music
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 16 black & white photographs
Размер: 151 x 228 x 21
Ключевые слова: Music,Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups,Music reviews & criticism, MUSIC / History & Criticism,MUSIC / General,MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
Подзаголовок: How little richard, johnnie ray, liberace, and johnny mathis queered pop music
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The all-embracing, "whaddya got?" nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop musics unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assume—but not see—their queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closet—both coming out and staying in—by analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberaces flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathiss intimate sensitivity while Rays overwrought displays as "Mr. Emotion" seemed worlds apart from Little Richards raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of gray flannel manhood, they pioneered the ways generations of later musicians would consciously adopt sexual mystery as an appealing and proven route to success.

Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music, Stephens Vincent L.